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Another semester, another syllabus. This winter term I’ll be teaching an introductory course to political communication again. For this semester I revised the syllabus a bit since some of the texts of last semester did not seem to work all that well for the students. Let’s see if this version improves on that. As always, if you have advice on the syllabus or if you think I’m missing crucial texts or concepts, please let me know.

Donald R. Kinder. 2003. “Communication and Politics in the Age of Information,” in: David O. Sears, Leonie Huddy and Robert Jervis (eds.). Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 357-393.

Strong Media Effects and PropagandaMandatory Reading:Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton. 1949. “Studies in Radio and Film Propaganda,” Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences 6, 58-79. Reprinted in: Robert K. Merton (ed.). 1968. Social Theory and Social Structure. New York: Free Press, 563-582.

Steven H. Chaffee and John L. Hochheimer. 1982. “The Beginnings of Political Communication Research in the US: Origins of the Limited Effects Model”, in: Everett M. Rogers and Francis Balle (eds.). The Media Revolution in America and Western Europe. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 263-283.